October 4, 2008

The Breast-Feeding Tour

Although PK does get fed quite a bit of formula through the course of a day, I do try to get her as much breast milk as I can. After all, it's good for her, and it requires a lot less prep time. To put it crudely, all I have to do is just whip 'em out and shove her mouth onto the nipple. Contrast that to bottle-feeding, which involves sterilizing bottles (I have a bunch of sterilized bottles on standby), mixing the formula (I have a bunch of bottles of pre-mixed formula sitting in the fridge), and heating up the bottle. Even with the first two steps taken care of for me, heating up the formula seems like an eternity (even with a bottle-warmer, which is a great purchase to make if you're bottle-feeding) when you've got a wailing infant who wants food NOW.

The point of all of this is that I breast-feed when I can, and even when I divide my time between breast-feeding and bottle-feeding, I still manage to find myself feeding in the strangest of places. Here's a list of places to date:

I think that the Indian restaurant takes the cake because I was out with two other mommy friends of mine for lunch that day, and we spent most of lunch feeding and changing our babies. I still look back on that day and chuckle.

I'm sure that I will be breast-feeding in many other weird places, and I will be sure to update this list in a few more weeks with the latest and greatest breast-feeding conquests!

Welcome to PK Land!

PK Land is a blog about my experiences as a parent. It is a follow-up to my pregnancy blog, PK on the Way, which I wrote to document my pregnancy in the hopes of someday sharing it with my daughter. PK is short for "Potential Kid", which the hubby and I used to refer to the child that we might have in the future. We also referred to our unborn child as PK, as we didn't quite have a name picked out for her until she was born. Even though "PK" has an actual name (and her initials are not P.K.), I thought I'd keep up the anonymity (and save her future embarrassment) by continuing to use PK in this blog.